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asked
with a frown. “She could have asked me to help them. I would be
happy to take over all of your obligations. After all, I was the one who thought it
best for you all to quit working for the time being.”
    Tony moved to stand behind Tansy.
“Maybe we could find her through them.”
    Viktor strode in with one of his men.
Tansy wasn’t sure, but she thought the other man’s name was
Aleksander. “Find who through whom?”
    “ May has disappeared. She
ditched her escort at the mall and we haven’t heard from her since.
We thought we might start our search by calling her favorite
charity.” Drake took April’s hand and kissed the center of her
palm. “Do not worry, my love. We shall find her before any harm
befalls her.”
    Jasmine crossed her arms in front of
her. “I’m not even going to try to help you guys.” Her green eyes
flashed, her short brown hair standing up in disarray. “Everyone
knows that the only thing I can conjure are dead things and I’d
rather not try to use my magic to find one of my
sisters.”
    A few of the other women just waved
dismissively, as though they expected as much from Jasmine. What
good could there come of a witch who could only manifest something
dead?
    “ Has anyone thought to
search her room? Maybe there’s something in there that could give
us a clue.” This came from the usually silent, Ivy.
    Her red hair curled around her face as
though she’d just showered and let her curly locks dry without
adding any product to it. She probably had.
    Tansy couldn’t see any of them taking
the time to straighten their hair or put on makeup if one of their
sisters had gone missing. They may not be related by blood, but
they were sisters just the same.
    “ Ivy’s right. We need to
search her room. May has been in contact with someone about this,
perhaps there is something in her room that will tie it all
together.”
     
    An hour later they all sat in May’s
room, chins in hand, wondering where their errant sister had
gone.
    “ I can’t believe her room is
so clean.” Rose wrinkled her nose.
    “ I can’t either.” Tansy
moved to the make-up table and deliberately knocked over two
lipsticks that stood side by side like little soldiers. “How can
anyone be so stinking organized?”
    Daisy laughed. “No one is as
disorganized as you, Tansy. A working daycare run by wild monkeys
would be more organized than you are.”
    Tansy stuck her tongue out at her.
“Shut up. You’re just jealous that I can find everything when I
need it. Your room looks clean but you can’t find anything when you
go looking.”
    “ Organized chaos?” Tony
asked as he moved up beside her and kissed her ear. “We should
probably get out of here. There doesn’t seem to be any clues and
sitting in here messing things up will only serve to make your
sister mad when she does come home.”
    Tansy could have kissed him
for his optimism. He didn’t say if May came home, but when.
    “ I have no doubt that it was
she who devised her escape. I just don’t know why she would feel
the need to do so.” Tony winked at her and took her
hand.
    “ Neither can I,” April said
from Drake’s lap. “This is all so not like her.”
    Tony reached over to pick up the
lipsticks she’d knocked down and moved a small bottle of perfume in
the process. Beneath the bottle was a small, folded napkin. Tansy
looked at the glass surface, noticing for the first time, that
every bottle had the same small napkin folded beneath
it.
    She pulled one out for
further inspection and noticed it was a cocktail napkin. “When did
May ever go to a place called the Purring
Pussycat ?”
    “ What?” Ginger sat forward,
her hand to her throat and eyes wide. “She’s been
there?”
    Tansy held up one of the napkins. “It
would seem so.” She moved another bottle and grabbed another napkin
to unfold it. “Yep. Here’s another one.”
    Tansy glanced at Ginger who still sat
with her hand to her throat, the color washed from her